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Many of my favorite analog synth sounds are some combination of sounds that were originally intended to emulate brass or string instruments. While early synth-using piano players who wanted to compose brass or string parts might have been disappointed in the accuracy of these emulations but I'm grateful for the result of these inaccuracies. I play with the Performer as an homage to that history, but also because on the Performer, there's nothing in the way of achieving a simple resonant-filtered mishmash of inaccurate brass and string sounds, which is essentially what we all mean when we say "lush pad". Bonuses on this machine: it's easy to open up and work on, and there's a separate output for the brass sound.